Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 9,619 What determines the economic, social, and political trajectories of nations? Why were settlers in colonies like Jamestown and Australia able to escape the extractive systems desired by their British masters, while colonial subjects in Barbados and Jamaica were not? In his latest book, Daron Acemoglu elevates the power of institutions over theories … Read more
Number of words: 195 HipDict* is the crowdsourced dictionary that’s going strong with over 2 million followers. Here are a few examples of how HipDict tells it like it really is… *Home* (n.) The place where you trust the toilet seat. *English Teacher* (n.) A person who puts more thought into a novel than the … Read more
Number of words: 286 Under an older and today much weakend view of the nature of law, each such question had a “right” and a “wrong” answer; the “right law” was somehow there, to be discovered or found by the correct use of technical reasoning. Among some lawyers and among some other people, this is … Read more
Number of words: 458 Mostcapital offences are unbailable, or bail is set so high as to be absolutely inaccessible to any but the affluent. This means that in the capital case every kind of activity outside the jail – the marshalling of testimony, the verification of facts – must be carried on by somebody other … Read more
Number of words: 562 First it must be noted that what we are talking about is not whether the threat of punishment deters people from crime. The question, much more specific than that, is whether the threat of death is of significantly greater deterrent force than the threat of long imprisonment. How does this question … Read more
Number of words: 100 If the prosecutor, having charged a capital crime, is nevertheless willing top accept a plea of guilty to a lesser offense, then the defendant has in turn the choice of accepting or rejecting this offer. This dreadful choice has to be made by a man in custody, often disoriented and frightened … Read more
Number of words: 1,902 It began with a cryptic remark. In 2012, when I was teaching at Princeton, a set of bright students enquired whether I might teach a course on Indian political thought. At the time, my rozi roti was teaching one of those broad introductions to “Western” political thought affectionately termed “Plato to NATO” courses. … Read more
Number of words: 828 A few days ago, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote of the “palpable climate of fear in our society today” as one of the reasons for India’s economic slowdown. This fear is partially caused by a crackdown on corruption, which is choking new projects, investments and bureaucratic decisions. The slowdown is … Read more
Number of words: 4,469 After the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, three officials from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission visited Warren Buffett at his office in Omaha, Nebraska. They wanted to ask America’s most successful investor about his 24 million shares in the credit-rating agency Moody’s. The commission would later identify Moody’s and other rating … Read more
Number of words: 923 New Scientist reports that doctors have used therapeutic suspended animation for the first time as part of a carefully designed human trial. The procedure, called Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR), is a way to try to save the lives of people with severe traumatic injuries like gunshot damage—patients who have lost the majority of … Read more
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